An estimator of number of species from quadrat sampling

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-141

  Haas, Peter J ^a   Liu, Yushan ^b   Stokes, Lynne ^c  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PPDI   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Block sampling; Cluster sampling; Distinct values; Jackknife estimator; Nonparametric estimator; Number of classes

Indexed keywords

BLOCK SAMPLING; CLUSTER SAMPLING; DISTINCT VALUE; EMPIRICAL BAYES ESTIMATOR; JACKKNIFE ESTIMATOR; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATORS; NUMBER OF CLASS; NUMBER OF SPECIES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; STUDY AREAS;

BIOMETRICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPIRICISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIANCE;

EID: 33645081700     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00390.x     Document Type: Article

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